Editor in chief

Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
The Expanding Battlespace — Ukraine’s Moral Burden in an Age of Long-Range Drone Warfare
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 5 August 2026 War has an inexorable tendency to erase the distinction between front […]
Russia’s New “Civic Death” Legislation — Exile Without Citizenship
By Matthew Parish Wednesday 5 August 2026 The Russian State Duma’s latest legislation targeting Russians convicted in absentia while living […]
Realism and anti-realism in an age of artificial intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 4 August 2026 The debate between realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of language […]
A Vehicle of Memory: A Journey to Lviv
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 4 August 2026 There are journeys whose significance lies entirely in their destination. There […]
The Shadow of a New Desert War: Could Saudi Arabia Return to Yemen?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 3 August 2026 History has a curious habit of returning to the same landscapes, […]
Ceuta’s Tragedy — When Human Lives Become Instruments of Diplomacy
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 3 August 2026 The scenes emerging from Ceuta have once again reminded Europe that […]
The Critique of Artificial Beauty: What Kant’s Third Critique Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 3 August 2026 The arrival of artificial intelligence has unsettled far more than economics, […]
Tramhaus in Lviv: When European Post-Punk Finds a City That Understands It
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 3 August 2026 There are concerts that are merely performances and there are concerts […]
Russian government persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 3 August 2026 Before the first church bell rings, before the first commuter boards […]
The Passport and the Rifle: Life in the Russian-occupied Territories
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 2 August 2026 There are occupations that seize land, and there are occupations that […]



